Category: Downtown
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NY- Lower Broadway Windows and ATM’s
Windows, mannequins, six shooters and call boxes on Lower Brodway.
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NY- Views from 99 John Street
I love downtown. It never ceases to amaze me that even though we now inhabit every inch of this rock, for the first few hundred years, almost the entire livelihood of the inhabitants took place behind a wall on the south end of the island. The birthplace of the Stock Exchange, although the financial business…
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NY-World Trade Center May 2, 2011
It was a bittersweet day for me in New York. I was happy we got Osama Bin Laden but news of his death opened up the floodgates of memories from that awful time in New York. We move on again.
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NY- Protest Update at Park51
You will be relieved to know that the protest left with the news departments and Park51 is back to it’s normal self.
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NY- Tribeca- Vacant Building Collapses-71 Duane St
It has been a pretty tough week for the folks downtown. First there was the threat of another “Man-made disaster” as people looked up in the sky to see what appeared to be a hijacked 747 being tailed by a fighter jet dipping through the skyline downtown. I was in a computer lab in the…
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NY- South Street Seaport- Fulton Street
What do you get when you take one of the most historical neighborhoods in New York City and add a suburban shopping mall? Tourists.
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NY- Olafur Eliasson Lights Up The Brooklyn Bridge
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson turned on the lights tonight to his East River Waterfalls. It was quite a spectacle. If you get the chance you really should make a special trip to see it.
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NY- Giants Fans Swarm Downtown for Ticker Tape Parade -1
Giants fans from all over the Eastern Seaboard gushed in to Downtown today to get a glimpse of the victorious Giants. The Cavern of Heroes filled to capacity by early morning and the crowds pushed out and swamped all of the streets in Downtown for one big party.
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NY- Giants Fans Swarm Downtown for Ticker Tape Parade -2
Giants fans from all over the Eastern Seaboard gushed in to Downtown today to get a glimpse of the victorious Giants. The Cavern of Heroes filled to capacity by early morning and the crowds pushed out and swamped all of the streets in Downtown for one big party.
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NY- Giants Fans Swarm Downtown for Ticker Tape Parade -3
Giants fans from all over the Eastern Seaboard gushed in to Downtown today to get a glimpse of the victorious Giants. The Cavern of Heroes filled to capacity by early morning and the crowds pushed out and swamped all of the streets in Downtown for one big party.
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NY- Tribeca- Murray and Church Street
I am not sure exactly where Tribeca ends and Downtown begins but these were taken on Murray Street and Church street. A lively neighborhood to stroll.
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NY- Fraunces Tavern and Histric Stone Street
The bar where I used to hang out had a second story for the proper folks to escape the ruckus and smoke from the surly drunks downstairs. Fraunces Tavern’s upstairs played host to the Sons of the Revolution as they sipped their ale and plotted succession from the King of England. Today it is a…